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THE HOURGLASS SOCIETY (Group)
Active collective; variable lineup · Resident of Project REPLICA
THE HOURGLASS SOCIETY are a London art collective whose line-up changes with the work. Samuel and Milly D form its intimate spoken-and-memory core; Daniel Aitkens and Jenifer Kilocwski expand that system into theatrical baritone and soprano scale. Time, decay and the room itself become part of the cast.
The Group's members are Daniel Aitkens, Jenifer Kilocwski, Samuel / Samuel William, Milly D. It is active from 2026–present as a resident of Project REPLICA on FARA Records.
Origins
Daniel convened a small black-box exercise about time leaking through a room. Samuel supplied the close human voice and Milly D the distant return; that two-person version became the first complete form. Jenifer joined when the piece was rebuilt at operatic scale, with Daniel entering as baritone/director character. The Society became the name for the expandable system rather than one fixed cast on every track.
The source anchor for the Group is: No meeting story/date is supplied. The operational collective uses track-specific configurations: Samuel and Milly D on the original; all four on the Opera Mix.
Formation and member roles
Daniel concept/director baritone; Jenifer classical soprano; Samuel grounded spoken-word centre; Milly D airy memory voice.
Daniel defines the staging problem, Samuel keeps it human-scale, Milly D makes memory spatial and Jenifer tests how much exact classical line the decaying room can hold. Participation is chosen by what the work requires.
Musical style and method
THE HOURGLASS SOCIETY works across dark trip-hop, spoken word, experimental theatre, opera crossover, art collective.
Start with duration, room and cast configuration before genre. Record a close grounded layer, a distant memory layer and, when required, larger theatrical registers without implying that more voices are an improvement.
The recurring themes are time as water, memory, repetition, dissociation as art metaphor, beautiful theatrical decay.
Public image
Present two-voice and four-voice configurations as equal canonical modes. A handless clock or measured drip controls scene changes; no horror jump-scares or medical staging.
Faded grandeur rather than squalor: candlelight, velvet, tarnished gilt, water stains, ruined theatre, handless clocks and hourglasses.
Add rehearsal markings, water shadows, archive boxes, worn stage rope and dignified black-box portraiture; separate the intimate and opera-scale image families clearly.
AURA Live
AURA Live brings THE HOURGLASS SOCIETY into physical venues as full-scale Project REPLICA presences. The Group's live image preserves every member's identity and role while translating its shared performance language into the room.
Realisation
THE HOURGLASS SOCIETY is an openly AI-realised Group from FARA Records under human writing, direction, curation, editing and final approval. The making of the work remains part of the work.